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R. I. 000KB. SLOW MATCH.

No. 557,556. Patented Apr. 7, 1896.

UNITED STATES.

ROBERT F. OOOKE, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO EMMA M.

PATENT OFFICE.

COOKE, OF SAME PLACE, AND EDIVARD SANDFORD, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

- 8 LOW- MATC H SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.557,556, dated April 7, 1896.

Application filed December 31,1895. Serial No. 573,889. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT F. OOOKE, a citizen of the United States, andaresident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Slow-Matches, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a slow-match more particularly designed foruse. in cigar-lighters and which is so constructed that it will notbecome extinguished even by a strong wind.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view, partly cutaway,of my improved slow-match; and Fig. 2 is a cross-section thereof.

In manufacturing my improved slow-match I steep a textile or paper tapeor core a in a boiling solution composed of about twenty parts of sugarof lead and eighty parts of water. The sugar of lead will be absorbed bythe tape a, and after it has dried the tape is steeped in a bath ofmelted paraiiin, which forms a coating or envelop b. \Vhile the paraffinis still in a soft state the tape is passed through 'a box containingpowdered metal magnesium ,which is pressed into the paraflin, as at c,by a pair of rolls, when the slow-match is completed.

' In my improved slow-match the textile core constitutes theflamecarrying body. The

sugar of lead serves to cause the core to become incandescent whenignited and to burn with a bright glow. The paraffin serves as aflame-feeder, and the powdered magnesium serves to throw 0E sparks andto prevent the extinction of the slow-match when subjected to a strongdraft or wind.

\Vhen my improved slow-match is once ignited, it becomes practicallyimpossible to extinguish the same except by cutting off entirely the airsupply.

The match will burn brightly and with a fiaine sufficient to light acigar or other combustible'object. It is ignited by means of a sparkthrown from a percussion-tape in a cigar-1i ghting implement.

Vhat I claim is- A slow-match which is not extinguishable by wind, andwhich consists of a core saturated with sugar of lead, a paraffincoating, and powdered magnesium embedded therein, substantially asspecified. v

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,this 30th day of December, A. D. 1895.

ROBERT F. COOKE. \Vitn esses F. v. BRIESEN, FREDERICK SEIBEL.

